Note 915 — Chapter IV · TUTORS AND GOVERNORS 1221–1223

Hubert de Burgh in 1239 said “Episcopus Wintoniensis misit Romam W. de S. Albino” [the reporter of his words, a S. Alban’s man, made the name “S. Albano,” but it was really Saint-Aubin] “pro dicto negotio,” i.e., to get the King declared of age; Responsiones, M. Paris, Chron. Maj., vol. vi. p. 69. If so, Honorius waited a long while before acting on the suggestion; for Master William de St.-Aubin was accredited as the King’s proctor at Rome on 25th March, 1222 (Pat. Rolls, vol. i. p. 328), and was back in England before 30th October, when he was sent on a mission to Poitou which lasted till the very time at which the Pope’s mandates about the majority were issued, April, 1223 (Close Rolls, vol. i. pp. 518, 541). Moreover, the letter accrediting William to the Pope is attested not by Peter, but by Hubert.